Contributor
Prugh, Tom.
ImprintWashington DC : Island Press, 2014.
Descriptionxxiv, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:Foreword / David W. Orr -- INTRODUCTION. 1. Failing governance, unsustainable planet / Michael Renner and Tom Prugh ; 2. Understanding governance / D. Conor Seyle and Matthew Wilburn King -- POLITICAL GOVERNANCE. 3. Governance, sustainability, and evolution / John M. Gowdy ; 4. Ecoliteracy: knowledge is not enough / Monty Hempel ; 5. Digitization and sustainability / Richard Worthington ; 6. Living in the Anthropocene: business as usual, or compassionate retreat? / Peter G. Brown and Jeremy J. Schmidt ; 7. Governing people as members of the Earth community / Cormac Cullinan ; 8. Listening to the voices of young and future generations / Antoine Ebel and Tatiana Rinke ; 9. Advancing ecological stewardship via the commons and human rights / David Bollier and Burns Weston ; 10. Looking backward (not forward) to environmental justice / Aaron Sachs ; 11. The too-polite revolution: understanding the failure to pass U.S. climate legislation / Petra Bartosiewicz and Marissa Miley ; 12. China's environmental governance challenge / Sam Geall and Isabel Hilton ; 13. Assessing the outcomes of Rio+20 / Maria Ivanova ; 14. How local governments have become a factor in global sustainability / Monika Zimmermann -- ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE. 15. Scrutinizing the corporate role in the post-2015 development agenda / Lou Pingeot ; 16. Making finance serve the real economy / Thomas I. Palley ; 17. Climate governance and the resource curse / Evan Musolino and Katie Auth ; 18. The political-economic foundations of a sustainable system / Gar Alperovitz ; 19. The rise of triple-bottom-line businesses / Colleen Cordes ; 20. Working toward energy democracy / Sean Sweeney ; 21. Take the wheel and steer! Trade unions and the just transition / Judith Gouverneur and Nina Netzer -- CONCLUSION. 22. A call to engagement / Tom Prugh and Michael Renner.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
